Startups – Page 225 of 312

Oct 14, 2013, 10:24 AM

Reddit’s Alexis Ohanian cracks the startup code in ‘Without Their Permission’

[Editor’s Note: GeekWire’s Todd Bishop will be talking with reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian about his book, “Without Their Permission,” tonight at 7:30… Read More

Oct 13, 2013, 1:01 PM

Startup Spotlight: Perfect helps you edit, share videos filmed with Google Glass

If Google Glass becomes more popular, people will likely be recording more video than they do today with just smartphones… Read More

Oct 13, 2013, 8:33 AM

Nextcast Q&A: LiquidPlanner CEO Liz Pearce on catching the startup bug and why she really can’t tolerate ‘ostriches’

How do you go from a part-time consulting gig to CEO of a 35-person company in seven years? Liz Pearce… Read More

Oct 12, 2013, 3:20 PM

Will AngelList help or hurt startup fundraising?

The fall of 2013 will be looked at as the turning point in fundraising for early-stage startups. The JOBS Act… Read More

Oct 11, 2013, 9:10 AM

Early-bird prices end today for Startup Day: Moz CEO Rand Fishkin, Glympse CEO Bryan Trussel added to lineup

OK, folks, as they say: “If you snooze, you lose.” Early-bird prices end later today for our big Startup Day… Read More

Oct 11, 2013, 8:58 AM

Live: Watch Demo Day presentations, meet the 7 new Portland Incubator Experiment startups

Three months of hard work, lots of caffeine and some pivoting culminate today in the Rose City as the seven… Read More

Oct 11, 2013, 8:07 AM

Comr.se raises $780K to help brands sell products within social streams

Shopping cart technology isn’t exactly the newest innovation around. But one young Seattle startup seems to have struck the right… Read More

Oct 11, 2013, 7:38 AM

Zillow chairman Rich Barton to headline entrepreneurship summit in Kuala Lumpur

The Fourth Annual Global Entrepreneurship Summit in Kuala Lumpur is taking on a distinctive Seattle feel. Not in the weather,… Read More

Oct 10, 2013, 11:08 PM

President Obama pledges support for global startup efforts, taps UP Global to help support 500,000 new entrepreneurs by 2016

The government may be shut down. But you can’t extinguish the entrepreneurial fire that easy. In video remarks at the… Read More

Oct 10, 2013, 3:29 PM

Startup Spotlight: Shippable helps developers speed up software deployment

After more than a decade working in various roles at Microsoft and a few years with a startup, Avi Cavale… Read More

Oct 10, 2013, 8:29 AM

DogVacay looks to be top breed in pet boarding, laps up $15M to bite back at Rover.com

It’s turning into an epic dog fight. DogVacay today announced that it has secured $15 million in fresh funding, money… Read More

Oct 10, 2013, 4:30 AM

Popular photo app Familiar shutting down after Evidence.com acquisition

It is a bittersweet day for the folks behind Familiar. The Seattle startup, which built the “21st century photo frame,”… Read More

Oct 10, 2013, 4:00 AM

VC deal activity hits highest mark since dot-com boom

It may feel a little frothy out there in startup land. And a new report out from CB Insights shows… Read More

Oct 9, 2013, 10:47 AM

Dawn Lepore and others added to Startup Day lineup, early-bird rates expire Friday

Do you want to get inspired by some of the region’s top entrepreneurial thinkers, innovators and doers? Of course, you… Read More

Oct 9, 2013, 9:04 AM

Solavei signs up 250,000 members and expands into new areas: Company now on $67M revenue run rate

It’s been just one year since Solavei emerged on the scene with a referral-based marketing approach for selling cellular service,… Read More

Oct 8, 2013, 5:47 PM

Startup Spotlight: Designlab teaches you web design skills with interactive lessons, in-browser tools

As more and more people create products on the web — from blogs to websites to apps — knowing how… Read More

Oct 8, 2013, 2:50 PM

Jobaline closes series A funding round, processes 150,000 job applications

Kirkland startup Jobaline has closed out its series A funding round, with an additional $2.8 million in funding from Madrona… Read More

Oct 8, 2013, 10:40 AM

Seattle startups scramble for office space as TechDwellers gives them the boot: Tech incubator to close doors

GeoRiot founder Jesse Lakes was excited to secure his company’s first office space earlier this year, picking the TechDwellers incubator in… Read More

Oct 8, 2013, 7:00 AM

iSpot.tv raises $5M, looks to provide better advertising insights by analyzing 35,000 TV commercials

Sean Muller didn’t have to raise cash for his fast-growing Seattle area startup iSpot.tv. After all, the 15-person company —… Read More

Oct 7, 2013, 4:27 PM

Parallax meets puzzles: How this startup embraced iOS 7

People who solve selected puzzles in the newly revamped Puzzazz app for iPad and iPhone will get a little visual… Read More

Oct 7, 2013, 2:33 PM

BuddyTV raises $1.5M, set to debut new TV discovery app

Gearing up to launch a brand new TV discovery app, Seattle-based BuddyTV has raised $1.5 million. BuddyTV was founded in… Read More

Oct 6, 2013, 1:00 PM

UP Global’s Marc Nager: ‘There’s no one way to build a company’

Marc Nager believes in the power of entrepreneurs, so much so that he’s a first-time entrepreneur himself building a network… Read More

Oct 5, 2013, 4:24 PM

The side-project entrepreneur: 4 reasons to try a startup without quitting your day job

I’m not sure if there’s a term yet coined for those who start companies in their spare time, so henceforth… Read More

Oct 5, 2013, 12:26 PM

Are Microsoft and Amazon holding back Seattle’s startup scene?

Silicon Valley is certainly the king in terms of venture capital and startup formation. And while Seattle has grown as a… Read More

Oct 4, 2013, 1:21 PM

Startup Spotlight: 21-year old creates Barters Closet to buy, sell and donate clothes online

Connor Simpson is a self-proclaimed sweater addict. About two years ago, unsurprisingly, his collection was getting a bit excessive and… Read More

Oct 4, 2013, 10:16 AM

TaxAct bolsters personal finance tools with Balance Financial buy

Balance Financial, a 9-year-old Bellevue company that specializes in personal finance tools and services, has been acquired by Blucora’s TaxAct… Read More

Oct 4, 2013, 10:13 AM

Introducing Seattle Startup Week: A full slate of events — plus fun collectible cards!

There’s so much percolating in Seattle’s startup ecosystem. We see it everyday in the companies we cover, checking out innovative ideas;… Read More

Oct 3, 2013, 3:54 PM

Geek of the Week: Zulily engineer Steve Reed, self-taught programmer

Steve Reed grew up in Seattle, studied astronomy and physics in college, and learned to program on the bus. How… Read More

Oct 3, 2013, 2:05 PM

Ex-drugstore.com CEO Dawn Lepore invests in SquareHub, joins advisory board

Dawn Lepore is a busy woman. A day after the former drugstore.com CEO joined board of Seattle tech mainstay RealNetworks,… Read More

Oct 3, 2013, 12:45 PM

Former Hulu execs nod to Seattle with stealthy startup The Fremont Project

Former Hulu execs Jason Kilar and Richard Tom both spent time in Seattle, having worked at companies such as Amazon.com… Read More